Tag Archives: New gTLDs

Sat 7th December 2013
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Daniel Negari Lays Out His Vision For .XYZ & Chats About The Controversial NameJet.com Auctions -     While at was at ICANN chatting with Applicants and others in the domain space the question I found myself being asked the most was about .XYZ. .XYZ has been very aggressive pushed the envelope when it became the first to auction off new gTLD domains names through Namejet.com So I reached out to Daniel Negari whose company is going to operate the .XYZ extension (and .College too)  to see what his vision for the extension is, what’s up wit the Namejet.com auctions  and what the hell he was ... read more ...
Thu 5th December 2013
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Here Are My First 3 New gTLD Registrations & How we Can Register Your New gTLD’s Now. - At ICANN I had a chance to get a personal tour of MindsandMachines.com new domain registrar site. Mindsandmachines.com which is part of Top Level Domain Holdings (TLDH), a publicly traded company on the London Stock Exchange, applied for 100 or so new gTLD’s and recently launched its own domain name registrar site. Not only can you register domain names on five new gTLD’s  extensions; Casa, .CEO, .Best, .Cooking and .Horse, but also .com .net and .org registrations. Since MindsandMachines.com ... read more ...
Wed 4th December 2013
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How Premium New gTLD’s Might Help Sell Your .Com Domains - Many of the new gTLD registries are planning on the old .TV pricing model to sell their premium domain names. Two large applicants Donuts and  Minds +Machines who between the two applied for 400 new gTLD strings, have both stated they indent to use the .TV pricing model which sells premium domains instead one for a one time payment in the four, five and even six figures and breaks them down by a factor of 1/10 and charges that amount every year as a annual premium renewal price. Like .TV pricing ... read more ...
Tue 26th November 2013
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.Luxury Selects Namejet.com/Afternic.com For Sunrise Landrush Auctions & Premium Name Sales - Luxury Partners, LLC, which own the new gTLD .LUXURY has selected NameJet and Afternic to manage the Sunrise, Landrush and Premium Name selection and sales. Godaddy.com which recently purchased Afternic.com, is currently taking pre-registrations of .Luxury domain names starting at $799.99 a year. Here is the rest of the press release: “The .LUXURY gTLD provides a brandable platform to meet the unique needs of the luxury market. Businesses in the luxury industry will have the opportunity to strengthen ... read more ...
 
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If A New gTLD Applicant Used His $185K To Buy Bitcoins Instead His Investment Would be Worth $30 Million - Back in May 2012 when the application period for a new gTLD’s  closed, the application fee was $185,000 per new gTLD string. At that time the value of a Bitcoin was trading at around $5.00. Instead of applying for a new gTLD string for $185,000 what if the applicant would have bought 37,000 Bitcoins, at $5 each. How much would have that $185,000 investment be worth today? Just about $30,000,000. So why would I tie new gTLD’s and Bitcoin’s together? Last week while I was in Argentina on a Saturday ... read more ...
Thu 21st November 2013
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GAC Communiqué: Wants To Look At “Public Policy Implications of Holding Auctions to Resolve String Contention” - The Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) just issued its Buenos Aires Communiqué from the ICANN Meeting and “requests a briefing on the public policy implications of holding auctions to resolve string contention (including community applications)”. The GAC considers that new gTLD registry operators should be made aware of the importance of protecting children and their rights consistent with the UN Convention on the Rights ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD .UNO Selects Sedo For Sunrise & Landrush Auctions & Broker Premium Domains -   Dot Latin LLC  who is the registry for the new gTLD .Uno has selected Sedo, to conduct sunrise and landrush auctions, define a premium list of the extension’s most valuable assets and provide brokerage and additional auctions for its premium domains. Godaddy.com is already accepting pre-registrations for .Uno domain names starting  at $39.99 a year Dot Latin established .UNO to provide a domain extension that will globally connect and unite Hispanic and Latino communities, businesses, individuals ... read more ...
 
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Famous Four Media Selects Sedo For Auctions & Brokerage of Premium Domains -     Famous Four Media (FFM), today announced its has selected Sedo.com to conduct auctions, privately broker premium names and promote the different extensions under FFM’s management. FFM was one of the most active participants in the program, applying to manage 57 new gTLDs. I n the coming months, FFM will begin making 12 of these extensions available to the public, beginning with .BID and rapidly followed by .WEBCAM, .TRADE, .ACCOUNTANT and .REVIEW. The remaining extensions will be released ... read more ...
Wed 20th November 2013
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New gTLD Strings With The Smallest Number of Domains In Collision (Non-Brand, Non-IDN’s) - We have chatted about the new gTLD strings with the most number of collisions based on ICANN report  here are the 10 new gTLD’s with the smallest number of collisions, that are not Brand applications and not IDN’s: .MutualFunds 26 .CancerResearch 27 .Bargains 52 .Yachts  62 .Passagens (Portuguese for cheap) 67 .Gripe 120 .Voto (Spanish for Vote) 137 .Translations 138 .Guitars 142 .Exposed 142 .Kosher 143 Some other new gTLD strings with a low number of collisions include .Republican, .Democratic,  ... read more ...
Tue 19th November 2013
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Donuts Picks Sedo To Run Sunrise Auctions & Run Premium Domain Name Auctions - Donuts, Inc. selected Sedo, to  manage contention resolution for competing trademarked domains, and will also assist in auctioning premium names that will be reserved from general registration. Donuts will commence Sunrise periods in November 2013 and they will continue through the middle of 2014. Sunrise provides an opportunity for trademark holders to secure their names before domains are opened for public availability. In instances where there are multiple claims for the same mark, Sedo will ... read more ...
 
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NameJet.com Pulls All 16 New gTLD Domain Names On Collision List Out of Auction - After ICANN released the collision list today for all new gTLD strings, Namejet.com informed TheDomains.com that it has pulled all auction for new gTLD domain names that were on the collision list. NameJet.com in conjunction with the .XYZ and .College registry has been first out of the block to sell new gTLD domain names by auction certain new gTLD domain names off on its platform However after ICANN released the collision report today, identifying domain names in each new gTLD which cannot be sold, ... read more ...
Mon 18th November 2013
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WOW: .Wow Leads All Strings In Number of Domains On Collision Report With Over 205,000 - Wow is right .Wow has the highest number of collisions in the ICANN report of new gTLD strings released today with over 205,000 domain names. I think most people in the domain industry wouldn’t  think there would be 200K domain registrations in .Wow much less than 205,000 strings in the collision report. For the record here are the top 10 new gTLD with the most domain names listed on the collision report: .Wow .Host .Gold .Hotel .Dell .Telefonica .Samsung .House .Auto .Computer     Google+Michael ... read more ...
 
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LoveRoom Gets Some Love By Business Insiders But The Real Winner Is Thought Convergence Owner Of LoveRoom.com - Businessinsider.com just covered the launch of Love Room, The startup boasts that it’s “a platform where single people from all around the world can rent their living space to others under one condition: they need to be attractive.”   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Fri 15th November 2013
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.London All Over The News Today As Its Signs Contract With ICANN - The new gTLD .London is all over news today as the Board of Top Level Domain Holdings (AIM: TLDH) reported that its client, Dot London Domains Ltd (“Dot London”), has signed the contract with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) allowing the new top level domain, .LONDON,  to proceed to the final round of pre-delegation testing before being introduced into the Internet’s root zone in 2014. Dot London is a subsidiary of London Partners, the official promotional ... read more ...
Thu 14th November 2013
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.Kiwi Launches Founders Program - The .Kiwi registry has formally launched a Founders Program for the .Kiwi new gTLD and has broken it down between several different levels of involvment Launch Community Individuals and organizations who show early interest in .kiwi, and are eager to promote their Kiwi-ness. Only a select few will have the opportunity to join the .kiwi Launch Community. Register your interest with us now to be kept in the loop about potential future offerings. Launch Partners Organizations that are so confident in ... read more ...
 
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Architelos Publishes The Second Installment of a NameSentry Namespace Quality Report - Architelos, Inc. announced today the publication of the second installment of the NameSentry Namespace Quality Report. The report benchmarks the comparative safety of the Internet and its largest Top Level Domains (TLDs) by measuring by the prevalence of security threats such as malware, phishing, botnets, and spam. The findings indicate a 67% increase of domain names identified and listed as “abusive” by major blocklists from January to September 2013, and that at least 5.5% of newly registered ... read more ...
 
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True Category Killer Hits The Market, Fashion.com But Why Is Schilling Brokering Not Buying It? - We get press releases about domain names for sale almost every day but this one really caught our eye. The domain name is Fashion.com Its a huge vertical, certainly a top 100 generic .com domain name and certainly worth into the eight figures According to the press release the domain is being brokered jointly by DomainNameSales.com and igloo.com. DomainNameSales of course was founded and is owned by Frank Schilling. Frank Schilling also is the founder of Uniregistry a company which applied for over ... read more ...
 
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.CLUB Partners with RightOfTheDot.com for “Category Killer” Premium & Founder Program Domain Sales and Strategy - Although I rarely write about projects I’m personally working on, I’m delighted to announced that .CLUB Domains, LLC, the company formed to own and operate the new “.CLUB” generic top-level domain name (gTLD), has partnered with Internet consulting and advisement firm RightOfTheDot, LLC to help facilitate and manage the release, placement and auction of certain super premium and Founder .CLUB domain names. Super premium names may include such “category killers” as a.club, e.club, 888.club, ... read more ...
Wed 13th November 2013
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1and1.com Tops 4 Million New gTLD Pre-Reservations; Adding 1.5 Million In a Month -                       The domain name registrar, 1and1.com just topped 4 Million pre-reservations for new gTLD domain names. The registrar announced earlier this week that they were accepting pre-registrations for 4 new gTLD’s, .BIKE, .SINGLES, .HOLDINGS and .CLOTHING which are different that pre-reservations. 1and1.com recently announced they have spent over $50 million dollars in television and other marketing of new gTLD domain name pre-reservations. On October 24th 1and1.com passed ... read more ...
 
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Brands May Lead The New gTLD’s But They May Also Lead The Confusion - Many expect the Brand applicants are to lead the new gTLD charge by bringing consumer awareness to the new gTLD program. To the extent consumers start seeing advertising on domain names using new gTLD’s , consumers may become much more aware of new gTLD domain names. However company’s are still using what I call the “indiscriminate dot” in its advertising, marketing and branding  which is only going to confuse consumers even more. At the recently held TRAFFIC conference I sat in a session ... read more ...
Tue 12th November 2013
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Here Are NameJet’s Terms & Conditions on New gTLD Auctions -         Namejet.com announced last week it would be auctioning off some new gTLD domain names in the strings .XYZ and .College, even before either new gTLD has been delegated to the root by ICANN. Some readers have questioned, exactly what they are bidding on since they can’t get the new gTLD domain if they win the auction and may not get the domain name. Namejet.com just updated its Terms Of Service last week in conjunction with the new gTLD domain auction and NameJet.com has specific rules ... read more ...
Mon 11th November 2013
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.CLUB Signs Registry Agreement with ICANN -         .CLUB Domains, LLC, the company formed to own and operate the new “.CLUB” generic top-level domain name (gTLD), announced today it has signed its Registry Agreement with ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the international organization responsible for managing and coordinating the Domain Name System (DNS). .Club is Listed in the “Top 10” on Many Pre-Registration Sites, and within the top 30 of 1and1.com, one of the few new gTLD extensions where the ... read more ...
 
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1and1.com Starts Selling Preregistrations For .Bike; .Singles; .Holdings; .Clothing - Accrding to a press release we received today 1and1.com has started selling pre-registrations on the  new TLDs including: .BIKE .SINGLES .HOLDINGS .CLOTHING “These pre-registrations are on an exclusive first-come, first-serve basis, which means no other 11 customers are able to pre-register a domain option that has been previously chosen by another party.:” “On the specific launch date of the selected TLD, the allocation of domains is carried out by the domain registry.” If you thought that ... read more ...
 
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National Association Of Realtors: Do Not To Pay Preregister .Realtor Domains They Will Be Free -     In a blog post today on Realtor.org, the National Association of Realtors is warning its members and I guess anyone else who about thinking about preregistering a domain name in the new gTLD .Realtor not to bother doing it at Godaddy or anyone traditional domain name registrar: “Domain sellers such as GoDaddy are beginning to promote a list of top level domains which will become available, including .REALTOR.   These domain sellers have no relationship with NAR or the sale of .REALTOR ... read more ...
Sun 10th November 2013
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Godaddy Goes All In On The New gTLD’s -                       Godaddy.com appears to have gone all in on the new gTLD’s. Gone from the front page of Godaddy is the drop down menu listing the different domain extension that are available for registration, replaced by a huge ad for preregistrations of just 4 new gTLD’s, .Uno, .Luxury, .Build, and .Menu. Actually the only other extension mentioned anywhere on the front page is .co which is right by the domain search bar. Instead of a drop down menu there is a “domain search ... read more ...